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It's been almost a month for me. Starting with the very first night I no longer have get up multiple times during the night to go to the bathroom. I feel more awake when I first get up in the morning than I used to. I don't feel more energetic, but I am getting more things done so I guess that I must be. I'm looking forward to continued improvement.

bailachel wrote:It's been almost a month for me. Starting with the very first night I no longer have get up multiple times during the night to go to the bathroom. I feel more awake when I first get up in the morning than I used to. I don't feel more energetic, but I am getting more things done so I guess that I must be. I'm looking forward to continued improvement.

Before CPAP, I used to have to go to the washroom allot during the night too. But now, I only have to go when I wake up in the morning.

Llama wrote:...why do people get up a bunch of times to go to the bathroom?

8-10 trips per night for me that disappeared on night 1 of CPAP therapy never to return...hurrah! It's called nocturia. When the brain panics because you're suffocating from an apnea or hypopnea, it floods the body with survival (stress) hormones, one of which jacks up your blood pressure. If it stays high long enough, the heart 'protests' the pressure by causing a hormone to be secreted that causes the kidneys to extract fluid from the body to lower the high pressure...this is urine, hence ya gotta pee. If the apneas or hypops occur often enough, the nightime hypertension occurs so often it then becomes all the time hypertension.

DSM just posted a link to a study that now recommends nocturia be considered one of the diagnosic symptoms of sleep apnea: viewtopic/t47325/Nocturia-as-a-marker-for-OSA.html

I'm into my third year. Went from CPAP to an APAP (auto-titrating CPAP) because I sleep so much better with the APAP. Took me a month for exhaustion to become plain ole tired, then slow progress.

Muse-Inc wrote:8-10 trips per night for me that disappeared on night 1 of CPAP therapy never to return.

That was a lot of nightly bathroom trips, Muse! It's amazing how fast our bodies can begin to recover!!!

Bed-wetting isn't mentioned very often, but that is also sometimes associated with untreated sleep apnea.

~ DreamOn

Thanks everyone for all your replys.